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lunedì 7 ottobre 2024

Kevin O'Brien's Orthodontic Blog


Adults Orthodontic Treatment
  • Why do adults want orthodontic treatment
Alignement
Bio-mechanic
Bullying
  • Is bullying about malocclusion a problem?
Class II malocclusion
  • Class II Malocclusion. 20 facts about treatment
Expansion
  • Expansion with Aligners or RME. What is better?
Extractions
  • A simple summary of the need for orthodontic extraction
  • Cortical Plates: Cliff-Edge or Forgiving Friend?
  • Do orthodontic extractions change soft tissue profiles?
  • Extracting premolars does not influence the ariway?
  • Good news! Extractions do not damage smiles
  • Is non-extraction kicking the extraction decision into the long grass?
Interceptive Orthodontics
  • Is interceptive orthodontics a hopeless pipedream?
Invisalign
  • Has Invisalign advertising "Crossed the line"?
ORTHODONTIC MONITORING: REMOTELY BETTER, PART 2

OSA
Maintaining orthodontic correction
  • A CAD-CAM Nitinol bonded retainer has a high failure rate
  • CAD/CAM nitinol bonded retainer versus a chairside rectangular-chain bonded retainer: A multicentre randomised controlled trial
  • CAD/CAM. Retainers again, does this one do better?
Plastic Aligners
  • Do plastic aligners cause harm?
Marketing
  • Does Diamond status make me better than you?
Mewing
Orthodontic literature
Orthognatic surgery
The post Bone-anchored protraction reduces the need for orthognathic surgeryRadiology

Orthodontic radiation exposure: a week of background radiation?

Retainer
Do bonded retainers really fail as much as the research suggests?

RME
  • Can RME change childhood behaviour?
  • Does RME reduce bedwetting?
  • Early expansion: patient impacts with RME versus Quad Helix
  • What is better? Quad helix or RME for maxillary expansion
Sleepiness
  • Is there an association between sleepiness and malocclusion?
Time of treatment
TMDs
  • Managing patients with chronic pain from Temporomandibular Disorders